Brian Kobilka ’81MD: What’s up, doc? The Nobel in chemistry.

By the staff
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12:34pm October 11 2012

Nobel Prize winner Brian Kobilka ’81MD

Despite his Minnesota roots, “I don’t have friends that have a really good Swedish accent,” says Brian Kobilka ’81MD. So when his phone rang in the middle of the night on Wednesday and the callers said they were from the Nobel committee in Stockholm, “I started believing it.”

It’s unusual for two physicians, neither one a PhD, to win the Nobel in chemistry. “A lot of what we do is self-taught,” Lefkowitz tells the LA Times. Kobilka adds that, for all his success in the lab, he kept up his cardiology practice for years: “You hold onto it because you’re afraid you might fail in research.”

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